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Search trends and geography

I know it's been around for a year or more now, but I still can't stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It's a trend-spotter's dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential ...

How BusinessWeek measures user engagement

How do you get past those squishy pageview and unique visitor metrics and instead measure how users actually respond to the content you produce? My interview on this topic with BusinessWeek Online editor John Byrne (whom I met in Perugia at the International Journalism Festival a couple weeks ago) is ...

March 6th 2010
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Checking in from Canada

In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
November 9th 2009
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Posted here and there

The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months: Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
October 2nd 2009
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What would you teach aspiring journalists about the internet?

It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course. I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...
September 2nd 2009
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Police radio play-by-play lands German Twitterer in trouble

I did this online journalism-related write-up last week for Spiegel International. It didn't run there, so I'm posting it here (with permission, of course): When a 71-year-old pensioner killed three people and wounded a fourth in a shooting spree last month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police response unfolded in real time ...
August 22nd 2009
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Search trends and geography

I know it's been around for a year or more now, but I still can't stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It's a trend-spotter's dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential ...